Improvement in game apparatus



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Game-Apparatus. 'N0 157,27] I Patented Dec. 1, 1874.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM M. OOMEY, OF NORFOLK, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPRQVEMENTlN GAME APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 157,271, dated December1, 1874; application filed October 8, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it ,known that I, WILLIAM M. GoMEY, of Norfolk, in the county ofNorfolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Game Apparatus, of which the following is a descriptionsufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in theart or science to which my invention appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part ofthis specification, in which Figure 1 is an isometrical perspective viewof my improvement.

My invention relates to that class of game apparatus which is designedfor either parlor or out-of-door sports; and consists in a novelconstruction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more fully setforth and claimed, by which an amusing and instructive entertainment isprovided.

In the drawing, A is the field or case, which is provided near one endwith the castle B, having the port or gate J. At the opposite side ofthe castle there is a moat, N, and a series of metallic plates, 0,hinged at one end to the side of the moat farthest from the castle, andarranged to fall across the moat, being extended to represent adrawbridge. In the field in front of the castle, and beyond the moat,are the knights, represented by the metallic uprights, numbered from 1to 10, respectively. These uprights are in the form of bell-cranklevers, and are pivoted in the field or case in such a manner that whenthe arms of the lever which are above the field are in a horizontalposition, the opposite arms, or parts below the field, will be in avertical position, as at 10; and when the parts below the field are in ahorizontal position the opposite arms, or parts above the field, will bein a vertical position, as shown.

The end of the field opposite the castle is inclined, as at R, andprovided with the staif 0, having the arms E F. To the arm E is attacheda chain,from which is suspended the ball G, the chain being constructedto slide easily along the arm E to any required position. Pivoted by itscenter to the central tower of the castle, on the side farthest from themoat, is a flag-staff, S, having a battlefiag, L, at one end, and a flagof truce, M, at the other. A series of short pins, K, project from thecastle-walls, to keep the staff in a vertical position; and there is atrencher, L, hinged by its upper end, and hanging suspended behind thelower end of the flag-staff, or between the flag-staff and the port. AnI inclined runlet or ditch, I, leads from the end of the field oppositethe standard 0, around its outer edge, to the end B.

The knights are arranged in the order offl p, 1

ten-pins on a bowling-alley, and the game is played by means of balls ormarbles, which are placed one at a time upon the field near the standard0, and forcibly struck with the ball Gr, swung by means of the chain towhich it is attached. The ball being thus impelled against the knightswill kill or knock down one or more of them, and may close a part of thedraw-bridge, and force its way through the port and against the trencherL, disengaging the staff S from the pins K, in which case thebattle-fiagL will fall, and the flag of truce M be run' up in its stead,the flagstaff being weighted or balanced in such amanner as to causethis to take place under such circumstances, thus ending the'battle orgame. As the balls pass through the port they will fallinto the runletI, and be returned to the player at the other end of the field.

The standard 0 is pivoted at its lower end, and provided with recesses,into which the arms E F are folded when not in use, the standard itselfbeing arranged to turn down into that part of the runlet I which isdesignated as 1) under like circumstances. Apart of the field or case isrepresented as broken away at Q, to show the arm 10, and the method ofusing the rod P in readjusting the knights after being killed or throwndown.

It will be obvious that a variety of rules may be adopted for keepingtally, and that counts may be made in accordance with the number ofknights killed, the number of balls sent across the moat and through theport, &c., according to the pleasure of the player, although it ispreferable that the game should be considered as slots or recesses intowhich the arms 'may be won when the battle-flag is run down, asdefolded, substantially as set forth and. specified.

scribed. 3. In the game apparatus described the arm Having thusexplained my invention, what F, in combination with the ball G, attachedby I claim isachain to the arm E, said arm F operating to 1. In a gameapparatus the castle 13, having prevent the chain from being carried toofar the port J in combination with the moat N, from the player as shown.

draw-bridge O, and knights l to 10 substan- XVM. M. GOMEY. tially as setforth. Witnesses:

2. In the game apparatus described the H. E. METGALF,

standard 0, provided with arms E F and the O. UNDERWOOD.

